Zakaria's work came under intense scrutiny after he admitted to lifting a paragraph from The New Yorker and it was insinuated that his busy schedule seemed to be part of the reason behind his "lapse," which he described as copying his notes wrong. As The New York Times' Christine Haughney reported yesterday, Zakaria had specifically mentioned he was going to cut back with the Yale Corporation as well as the Council on Foreign Relations.

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